Posted on 07/23/2013 7:31:04 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
Mr. President, history and reality teach us that as racists go, we are, frankly, rank amateurs. And I am sick and tired of Ivy League elites like you and Professor Gates pretending otherwise.
What? You think I'm crazy?
Look at it this way. If we were worth a damn as racist whites, would we fall all over ourselves everyday to voluntarily watch, cheer for, emulate, take advice from and enrich folks named Tiger and Oprah?
Those are, after all, the two people that white racist America has anointed as the top cultural icons in our society. Ever heard about "the Oprah effect" or the ad campaign "I am Tiger Woods?" Let me translate for you: white Americans absolutely love these two black folks above any other athlete, actor, singer or even American Idol contestant on the planet -- and big business in search of evil profits -- knows it.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Finally a rational common sense response to the ridiculous race card idiocy.
Good article. Tell the author I liked it...
...don’t do that...might go to his head.....
If the black man is burdened by the white man, vote with your feet and get the hell out of Dodge. Go back where you freekin’ belong. Or do like the white people do - when the black ghetto creeps into the neighborhood, move to another neighborhood instead of bitchin’. Above all, STOP BEING A VICTIM! Take responsibility for yourself, then just maybe you’ll feel better about yourself.
Oooh boy, where do I start? In China, until very recent, a person of mixed blood were called “CHOP CHUNG”, meaning you had 10 fathers(meaning your mother was a whore). In Japan, if you were a foriegner, 10 of you is worth one japanese. Now let’s talk about Africa. If you were of a different tribe, you had better not be caught in another village, unless you were invited. And yes, to this day, there is slavery in Afica. I’ve been in a slave market in Somalia, and seen what they do to their slaves. And of course there are the MUSLIMS. In many Muslim country in the middle east, if you are an “UNBELIEVER”, you can be killed for any reason. Your wives and daughters can be kidnapped and be forced into a marriage to a Muslim man, thereby making her a “MUSLIM”, So, don’t talk to me about this country being a “RACIST” country. I’ve seen what and how the other people in this world treat other races.
Nothing like this has ever happened in our country and certainly is not happening today. Yet, Gates is all worried about racist cops and being burdened with being a "black man in America."
We are conducting, for now, our tribal wars thru the ballot box. In the 2012 Presidential election 59% of non-Hispanic whites voted for Romney. He got the white vote among all age groups and gender. Obama got 93% of the black vote, 73% of the Asian vote, and 71% of the Hispanic vote. Immigrants voted two to one for Obama.
As this country descends more and more into a Third World country, these battles will be taken to the streets. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as defined by the USG and by 2043 half of the country will be minorities. We are creating a huge permanent underclass populated primarily by blacks and Hispanics. In most of our largest inner cities, it is a social tinderbox ready to ignite.
Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent
"If you're a high school dropout you're talking about 30 percent working. Among high school grads who graduated from high school in the last three years -- we do a separate survey of them the fall after graduation -- 45 percent of them held a job, the lowest in the last 50 years we've been collecting this data. And to make it worse, of that 45 percent, only half of them were able to get a full-time job. Only one in five young high school grads, not in college, [is] working full-time."
We used to be a world leader on putting young people to work. In the last 10 years we've moved from the fifth best to the 13th in a pack of 24 OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, meaning post-industrial] countries. The United States is no longer a leader. There are countries that far surpass us including Canada, Australia, Germany. Kids there not only work, they are much better trained, much more prepared to work. That's why I think we should care, because the more you work as a teenager, the more you're going to work when you're 20-years-old.
These things carry forward. It's not like I had one bad year. No, those bad years will haunt you for many years. If you lose work this year, you not only lost your earnings for 2013, you're going to lose your earnings for the next five to 10 years.
There's a recent study that shows if you spent six months unemployed as a teenager, that's going to carry forward for the next 10 years of your life."
My 13 year old is detassling corn. Hot and humid in central Illinois corn fields this time of year but it will give him great life training and put money in his pocket at the same time. I started working in cotton fields when I was 9 years old, it won't kill anybody to work.
You speak of a time or say conscience that a person must learn and earn to get established in society. Many people today are shown/taught that ‘learn and earn’ are not the way of life but instead ‘demand and protest’ is the way to make it through life.
Between the first quarter of 2000 and the first quarter of 2013, the native-born population accounted for two-thirds of overall growth in the working-age population (16 to 65), but none of the net growth in employment among the working-age has gone to natives.
The overall size of the working-age native-born population increased by 16.4 million from 2000 to 2013, yet the number of natives actually holding a job was 1.3 million lower in 2013 than 2000.
The total number of working-age immigrants (legal and illegal) increased 8.8 million and the number working rose 5.3 million between 2000 and 2013.
Even before the recession, when the economy was expanding (2000 to 2007), 60 percent of the net increase in employment among the working-age went to immigrants, even though they accounted for just 38 percent of population growth among the working-age population.
Since the jobs recovery began in 2010, about half the employment growth has gone to immigrants. However the share of working-age natives holding a job has remained virtually unchanged since 2010 and the number of working-age natives without a job (nearly 59 million) has not budged.
The decline in the share of natives working, also referred as the employment rate, began before the 2007 recession. Of working-age natives, 74 percent had a job in 2000; by 2007, at the peak of the last expansion, just 71 percent had a job, and in the first quarter of 2013, 66 percent had a job.
The decline in employment rates for working-age natives has been nearly universal. The share of natives working has declined for teenagers and those in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s from 2000 to 2007 and from 2007 to 2013. The decline has been especially pronounced for workers under age 30.
Like age, there has been a decline in work for all educational categories. The employment rate for native high school dropouts, high school graduates, those with some college, and those with at least a bachelor's degree declined from 2000 to 2007 and from 2007 to 2013.
The number of adult natives with no more than high school education not working is 4.9 million larger in 2013 than in 2000, the number with some college not working is up 6.8 million, and the number with at least a bachelor's degree not working is up 3.8 million.
The decline in work, which began before the Great Recession, has impacted men and women as well as blacks, Hispanics, and whites. The fall in the share of working-age natives holding a job has been most pronounced for men, blacks, and Hispanics.
During the five years prior to 2013 (2008-2012), about 5.4 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) of all ages arrived in the United States. In the five years prior to 2007, about 6.6 million new immigrants arrived. Thus, during the worst economic slowdown in the last 75 years, immigration fell by only 17 percent compared to the economic expansion from 2002 to 2006.
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